* Headlines for July 30, 2004
* A July Surprise? Pakistan Announces Arrest of Top Al Qaeda Figure Hours Before Kerry Speech
* Hundreds Protest DNC in Boston; Two-Faced Effigy of Bush & Kerry Burned
* DNC Delegate Arrested After Being Refused Entry To Fleet Center
* Democracy Now! Confronts Madeline Albright on the Iraq Sanctions: Was It Worth The Price?
* Democratic National Convention Chair Bill Richardson Questioned on the Party's Pro-War Stance
* Kweisi Mfume on President Bush's Refusal to Address the NAACP
* Kerry Accepts Nomination: Vows to Increase Military By 40,000 & Double No. of Special Forces
* Flashback: A Rare Broadcast of John Kerry's 1971 Speech Against the Vietnam War Before the Senate


This audio is part of the collection: Democracy Now!
It also belongs to collection: News & Public Affairs

Artist/Composer: Democracy Now!
Date: 2004-07-30 00:00:00
Source: Radio/Television broadcast
Label / Recorded by: DN Studios
Keywords: Democracy Now

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Reviewer: kirien - - August 1, 2004
Subject: John Kerry 1971
30 minutes into hour one, John Kerry's 1971 Speech before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee denouncing the Vietnam War is a powerful history lesson. His grievances against the war include war crimes committed by solders at the behest of the US Government, the poor killing the poor for the benefit of the rich, the clamp down on freedoms at home, the hatred of the invaded towards the invaders, and the lies of the administration.

" In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which could happen, that realistically threatens the United States of America."

"We rationalized destroying villages in order to save them."

"And now we are told that the men who fought there must watch quietly while American lives are lost so that we can exercise the incredible arrogance of Vietnamizing the Vietnamese."

"Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.'"

"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

"But the point is, they aren't a free people now under us. They are not a free people. And we cannot fight communism all over the world and I think we should have learned that lesson by now."

Substitute terrorism for communism and you can almost hear Kerry as a solider recently returned from Iraq, and all the same grievances hold true.